History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day the United States, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day the United States.

French language spread in the United States
Distribution de la langue française aux États-unis

Italian language spread in the United States

Welsh language spread in the United States

Dutch language spread in the United States

German language spread in the United States

Swedish language spread in the United States
Svenska språkets spridning i USA

Spanish language spread in the United States

Russian language spread in the United States

Finnish language spread in the United States

Tagalog language spread in the United States

Chamorro language spread in the United States

Religion maps

Jewish population

Jewish congregations

Roman Catholic dioceses

Legal and political maps

Electoral map

Courts of Appeals and District courts

Death Penalty

Abortion legislation

Pre-Abortion counselling legislation

Abortion legislation, mandatory waiting period laws

Highest median household income

Median household income change

Counties with the lowest median household income in 2000

Counties with the lowest pro capita income in 2000

States without income tax

States without income tax on wages

Position of the trade unions

Minimum wage legislation

Sodomy laws

Cannabis laws

Various maps

State name etymologies

Time zones

Rivers and lakes in the US

Average precipitation

Federally protected marine areas (National Marine Sanctuaries)

Notes and references

General remarks:

The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.

Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.

Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.

The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.

The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.